Has Mikael Samuelsson finally played his last game for Detroit?

No Zetterberg, no Helm, no Weiss, no Franzen, no Abdelkader. Emmerton in GR, Tootoo in GR.......and he still can't crack the line-up.

Have we finally seen the last of #37? I wonder if this is Kenny's way of putting pressure on him - now will you waive your NMC so we can do a salary dump trade?

"If I can be totally honest, it's not a lot of guys you get impressed by. Actually, it's no one else but him. From the bench, to see what move he makes -- you're like, 'I wish I could do that.' Sometimes you sit on the bench and just think, 'wow,' and you look over to the other bench and they sit there and shake their heads, too. He has great, great skills. I'm probably not going to play with another player who has the kind of skills he has." Mikael Samuelsson on Pavel Datsyuk

No Zetterberg, no Helm, no Weiss, no Franzen, no Abdelkader. Emmerton in GR, Tootoo in GR.......and he still can't crack the line-up.

Have we finally seen the last of #37? I wonder if this is Kenny's way of putting pressure on him - now will you waive your NMC so we can do a salary dump trade?

Why should he do that? The guy is getting paid and I'm sure is already flirting with retirement at the end of the year, so even if he doesn't play it changes nothing for him. Hate to say it, but Kennys hands are tied here if he doesn't waive nobody can force him to.

"We feel like last season was one of those seasons where nothing seems to go right for anyone," Holland said, referring to, among other things, the Wings' borderline comical injury woes. "Was Sammy one of our best players? Probably not. But I think you could say that even Datsyuk wasn't really himself, for whatever reasons."

"I just don't know that it's fair to single out one or two players. When a team with as much talent as ours misses the playoffs, I call that a team effort. No one was really getting it done in the second half, after Sochi. We're not going to scapegoat anyone for that."

You know it's gonna happen. Don't even try to deny it.

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!" - Kierkegaard

A powerplay unit with both Cleary and Sammy on it. This is YOUR fault.

*hangs head in shame*

I deserve the banhammer for this

"If I can be totally honest, it's not a lot of guys you get impressed by. Actually, it's no one else but him. From the bench, to see what move he makes -- you're like, 'I wish I could do that.' Sometimes you sit on the bench and just think, 'wow,' and you look over to the other bench and they sit there and shake their heads, too. He has great, great skills. I'm probably not going to play with another player who has the kind of skills he has." Mikael Samuelsson on Pavel Datsyuk

Things are actually going exactly as they should. The vets get the nod until they play themselves out of a roster spot. Sammy and Cleary are doing just that, playing themselves off the roster and, like Nyquist, one of these kids is going to earn their spot.